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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST WUENSCH, OF NEWT YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,662l dated April 19, 1887. Application filed February 23, 1887. Serial No. 228,538. (No model.)

T all whom-it may concern:

Be it knownthat l, AUGUsT WUENsoH, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the 'following is aspecitica tion.

coffin-like structures are made of pasteboard,

covered by some ornamental paper. They are somewhat diicult and expensive to make and iit into place, and they obscure very much the contents ofthe box. As a matter of fact they cost nearly, if not quite, as much asall the rest of the box put together. It is my object to do away with these obj ectionable structures, andto provide skeleton dividing-walls, which, while holding the cravats quite as securely in place, shall offer a minimum obstruction to viewing the contents of the box, and shall also reduce materially the cost of the box itself.

The nature of my invention can best be explained and understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box embodying my invention lin its preferred form. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on line wx, Fig. 3. Fig. 8 is a plan of that part ofthe box containing the dividing-walls. Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views, in dierent stages of advancement, of one of the structures of which the dividing-walls are made up. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modification. Fig. 7 is a vertical cross-section through one of the partitions of the box shown in Fig. 6.

rlhe box shown in Fig. 1 is intended to hold three piles of cravats in a row. The two end piles are separated from the center pile each by dividing walls or partitions of approximately the outline of a T. Of the head of the T the right-hand limb, 1, is longer than the left-hand limb, 2, this being to make the space inclosed between each two of these skeleton dividingwalls of a shape to conform to that of the bow of the cravat which is received and held between them, as indicated plainly in Fig. 1. The wall next to the two sides of the box is of the shape of that half of the T appropriate to the side on which it is placed.

The space or opening between the heads of adjoining Ts isrjust wide enough for the cravat at the junction of the bow and ends of the scarf, and the ends project beyond this opening into the body of the box, as'seen. The cravats are thus held firmly by their heads or bows, which fit snugly and are held securely in the spaces bounded by the T-shaped dividing walls or partitions. These Walls or partitions are conveniently made, as follows:

If there are to be three cravatsin arow, then I take a box, such as is shown at A, in Fig. 4t, of a length equal to one-third the Width ofthe box, of a width sufficient to accommodate the length of the bow portion of. the scarf, and of a depth equal to that of the box. IThe box A is conveniently and cheaply made of a bottom piece and a strip sufcient in length for the four sides, which is creased or partly slit at the proper points of bend, and is then bent around and secured at its lower edge to the bottom by a strip, a, ot' paper,which is pasted over the j oint, as is customary. I then form the two longer sides of this box, and cut out the pieces included between the dotted lines b b and c c, Fig. 4, thus bringing the box to the condition shown in Fig. 5, with a space within it to receive the bow of the cravat, a comparatively contracted opening, d, on one side for the passage of the ends ot' the cravat and a comparatively larger opening, e, on the other side for the broad top of the cravat above the bow and for the neckband x, Fig. 1, which usually protrudes from this broad top in loop form.

1t is preferred to preliminarily crease the sides on the lines b b c c, so that the workman may have no dfioultyin determining thelines of cut.

After preparing three such boxes, as shown in Fig. 1, they are put into the larger box, B, Fig. 1, and are then placed end to end, in which position they extend in line across from side to side of the box B, as shown plainly in Figs. 2 and 3. They are secured in this position to one another and to the box by paste, glue, or

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other means usually employed for the purpose, vided with T-partitious, arranged as shown and they are covered Wit-h paper, as indicated and specified, to receive and hold between at j', so as to present the appearance of a homothem the bows of the cravats, and to provide y geneous structure. the openings d e for the ends and neckbands, 2o there is a bottom strip, g, which extends from 2. The box B, provided with partitions side to side of the box B,and wooden partitions formed by boxes A, having openings d e in h, which constitute the Shanks ofV the Ts, the their sides, and placed and secured in the box heads and feet j of the Ts being secured to B end to end, as hereinbefore shown and de- 25 1o these parts h, and the whole covered, as in the scribed.

other instances, with paper. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set Having described my improvement and the my hand this 19th day of February, 1887. best Way nowknown to me of carrying the AUGUST WUENSCH. same into effect, what I claim herein as new WVitnesses: t5 and of my own invention is- C. S. BRAIsTED,

1. The herein-deseribedbox forcravats, pro- LEOPOLD AUsBAoHER. 

